Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAEEZqX28642; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:35:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:35:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sdd35f47.072@ds1.uwinnipeg.ca> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Robin Millar" <r.millar@uwinnipeg.ca> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:620] Re: FOB RE: Sponsors and Sponsorship X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1751 Lines: 38 recently completed my doctoral dissertation which is entitled Ambivalent Learning. In this research, I talked with many adults in up grading and literacy porgrams. In one chapter, I focused on the many supports that students need to re-connect to learning. I liked your use of the word "sponsorship." I do have examles that students told me and I can forward that chapter to you if you are interested. Mainly students got 'sponsorship' from family and friends. Some received it from teachers and tutors in the program. Others from other students in the program. Many also had negative feedback from other family and friends. They particularly found it difficult to change their life styles in order to accommodate a return to learning. Robin Millar Dr. Robin Millar Executive Director Centre for Education and Work 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9 204-786-9395 >>> comingjo@gse.harvard.edu 10/31/02 09:49 AM >>> FOB readers: Sonda Cuban and I shared interim findings on sponsors and sponsorship in Vol 6 Issue A of FOB. We are now beginning work on the final report of our research and would be interested in hearing feedback on the article. Specifically, do you see sponsorship as important to supporting student persistence (do you have examples of it?), do you think the three types of sponsorship make sense (are there other types?), have you seen program or teacher activities that support sponsorship? Thank you John Comings John Comings, Director NCSALL -- Nichols House Harvard Graduate School of Education (617) 496-0516, voice 7 Appian Way (617) 335-9839, cell Cambridge MA 02138 (617) 495-4811, fax john_comings@harvard.edu http://ncsall.gse.harvard.edu
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